Don’t hold back now, tell us what you really think of LinkedIn…

Now if you only connect to people you know and trust, what are the chances that they will be inflating their profiles, or putting up improper recommendations?

And your opinion of the people your direct contacts connect to?

Hmmm – could that possibly be another reason to end the practice of indiscriminate connections?-)

You can’t stop others, but you can certainly influence the people you care about.

But if you really don’t like the system, just stay away.

steve

“Larger social networks (Facebook, Twitter) suffer from a HUGE lack employment-related data (most people don’t mention employer, titles, skills, experience), and Facebook continues to be unsearchable for practical intents and purposes. So many people, so little ability to find them based on expertise and experience…”

Please explain to me what oversight happens with LinkedIn profiles. What stops “resume” inflating or worthless employees recommending each other? LinkedIn is worthless as anything other than a social networking site. Sure there are lots of good and honest people in the world who would not think of using these methods to inflate their marketability but it does not take long to find the “losers” that you have worked with in the past and in my experience 100% of them have some aspect of false information in their profile.

Joe is actually on the list at #6.

Nice catch with Mukta – she didn’t appear in the search results because her current title is “Sr. Associate – Hiring at Sapient.” Dan was also similarly missed because his current title is “President at Renascent Solutions.”

It would be impossible to craft a precise and relevant search string to include all of the various titles people who perform the recruiting function can possibly have without scooping up copious quantities of false positives.

I will, however, be posting a new article with some tweaks to the search parameters to catch folks like these. Thanks for bringing these people to my attention, and to my readers!

Thanks for the post – I brought this post and list into the middle of my series “Exposing LinkedIn Connection Myths”.

I cannot refute that connecting widely may make sense for a recruiter – but you may enjoy the other parts of the series;-)

Best regards,
steve
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Steven Tylock
The LinkedIn Personal Trainer
http://www.linkedinpersonaltrainer.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevetylock

Ron Bates, Stan Relihan,
Joe Compton – http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=202065
Mukta Kanoja – http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=8693174
Dan McLaughlin – http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=487144